The Buckeye Thread



Sorry, I didn't understand the rule and I screwed up. These are public domain images created for the 1915 standard that may be useful to the questioner. (The 2010 standard picture shows a female with a larger head and a larger tail, with more of the length of the back incorporated into the tail - your library may have one.) The main thing I'd call her attention to is the curve in the breast, which is very full in the 1915 image and pretty slabby in the questioner's photograph.

When I'm evaluating a bird in my yard for SOP qualities, I take lots and lots of pictures, in part because I am still training my own eyes, and I'm trying to really get a record of how the birds change as they mature. Even a really nice bird won't look like the SOP outline all the time - the neck will be extended or contracted, the tail will be down, whatever. What you're looking for is, can the bird ever look like this? To get a picture to compare, you have to get down to the level of the birds - the outlines are based on the observer being level with a point below the top of the bird's back. It's good to take the time to crop the image down to the bird, too, so you can get it as large as possible. With lots of pictures, and some time observing on your part, you'll get a much truer sense of 'what represents this bird' than from a single snapshot.

Also, the hundreds of pages of this thread and the previous one have lots of great Buckeye pictures - well worth your time to scroll back and enjoy!
 
Here is a pic of one of my 5 month old cockerels, weighs just over 6 1/2 lbs with great shape, color and undercolor. I raised a bunch that look just like him. This fall and next spring is going to be fun ;)
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Nice pics poltroon, I wish many of today's females actually did look like that one!! There is far to much fluff in the saddle and thighs in the majority of today's buckeye females.
 
I'm real proud of my pullets this year as well, great size (height and width), excellent dark color (strong well defined bar of slate) with zero fluff in the saddle/thighs and appropriate tail angles.

Good luck with yours
 
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this was nugget my buckeye roo he was 4 months old. He died protecting his best friend Peep from a neighbor dog but if it wasn't for nugget Peep wouldn't be such a great layer today. RIP Nugget.
 

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